Based on justice motive theory (Dalbert, 2001), this presentation will discuss the hypotheses that justice-related reactions are driven by two processes that differ in their degree of automaticity and that these different processes can be explained by two types of justice motives: the implicit justice motive working on an unconscious level and a self-attributed justice motive, which depicts the justice-related dimension of the motivational self-concept. The self-attributed justice motive better explains controlled reactions, particularly self-presentations. The implicit justice motive better explains more intuitive justice-driven reactions as for example the assimilation of injustices or rule-breaking behavior. Empirical evidence from several studies will be presented.

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